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1) About a boy
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Description
'How cool was Will Freeman?' Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents' groups full of available (and grateful) mothers, all hoping to meet a Nice Guy. Which is how Will meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell and Mozart,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Description
When Christie Lynch, journalist and single mother of two, appears as a guest on a daytime TV talk show, she could never have imagined that it would lead to a new career. Spotted by hugely successful talent agent, Julia Keen, Christie can't help but be impressed by Julia's charm and stellar client list. And once Julia takes Christie on as a client, Christie's life changes for ever as Julia secures her a high-profile presenting job on a daily chat show....
Author
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy' - Candis Step into the wonderful world of Cedar Cove with the first six books in Debbie Macomber?s bestselling series bundled together for an indulgent escape. Including: 16 Lighthouse Road, 204 Rosewood Lane, 311 Pelican Court, 44 Cranberry Point, 50 Harbour Street and 6 Rainier Drive.Make time for friends. Make time for Debbie Macomber.
6) Leave me
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Meet Maribeth Klein, a harried working mother who is so busy taking care of her husband and twins that she doesn't even realise, working late one evening, that she has had a heart attack. Afterwards, surprised to discover that her recuperation seems to be an imposition on those who rely on her, Maribeth does the unthinkable - she packs a bag and leaves. Far from the demands of family and career, and with the help of new friendships, she is finally...
Author
Publisher
Trapeze
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
This is a multi-generational novel that follows two women from the same family as they each embark on their own journeys through single parenthood in 1953 and 2012 respectively. It explores the varying perception of single parenthood and was inspired by Wallace's family as her grandmother raised her mother alone in the 1950s.
Author
Publisher
Cornerstone Digital
Pub. Date
2011
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Description
Can love conquer all? A wonderfully romantic novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love, A French Affair and The Perfect Match. It's not as if Nel hadn't enough on her plate already: organising a farmers' market in the picturesque Paradise Fields and keeping track of her unnervingly beautiful teenage daughter - plus sorting out a houseful of animals - are quite enough to keep her busy. The last thing she needs is another...
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Australian soccer mum Sarah Calhoun keeps the terrifying secrets of her time as an overseas aid worker from everyone she loves. Until two men from Northern Ireland hunt her down - one an obsessive policeman with demons of his own, the other a brutal IRA executioner, too closely connected to her past. She is forced to return to Belfast to testify at a murder trial. But she faces an impossible choice - lie on the stand and allow a vindictive killer...
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Thirty-year-old Paige Dougall?s life is a mess. Only a year ago she was smashing all of her life goals - handsome husband, high-flying job, cute kid. But in just under twelve months everything has gone wrong. Nursing a broken heart, single mother Paige returns to Kindness Cottage, her childhood home nestled in a picture-perfect Scottish village, to try and get her life together. Despite the backdrop of rolling hills and lavender-scented air, Paige...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2022
Description
What if you discovered everything you knew about yourself as a lie? When pregnant Jaya loses her mother, then her baby son Arun in a tragic cot death, her world crashes down. Overcome by grief and guilt, she begins to look for answers. Looking through her mother?s belongings, she finds two diaries and old photographs, carrying the smoky aroma of fire. A young boy smiles out at Jaya from every photograph - and in one, a family stand proudly in front...
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Eight-year-old Carmel Wakeford becomes separated from her mother at a local children's festival, and is found by a man who claims to be her estranged grandfather. He tells her that her mother has had an accident and that she is to live with him for now. As days become weeks with her new family, Carmel realises that this man believes she has a special gift - that she is potentially a saviour. While her mother desperately tries to find her, Carmel is...
15) Afterwards
Author
Publisher
Piatkus
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Black smoke stains a summer blue sky. A school is on fire. And one mother, Grace, knows there is a girl still inside. It's her daughter, Jenny. Grace does what any mother would do - runs to find her. Afterwards, Grace must fight to save her family and find the person who is intent on destroying them.
16) The shut eye
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When James Buck pops out to buy fireworks, leaving the front door of his flat open, his little son, Daniel, wanders outside and goes missing. Now James struggles to cope with his guilt, while his wife Anna spends her days guarding the small footprints her son made in the forecourt near her door. A flyer advertising a psychic, Richard Latham, offers Anna hope at last... DCI John Marvel knows Latham from another case of a missing child - that of twelve-year-old...
18) The rescue
Author
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Taylor McAden is a volunteer fireman who has never allowed a relationship with a woman to mature. At a road traffic accident he forms a relationship with a victim, a young single mother, that might just lead to a deeper commitment if he can allow it.
19) Mum & dad
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Pub. Date
2020.
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Description
It's been twenty-five years since Gus and Monica left England to start a new life in Spain, building a vineyard and wine business from the ground up. However, when Gus suffers a stroke, it's left to their three grown children in London to step in. Businessman Sebastian's wife, Anna, has never quite seen eye to eye with her mother-in-law. Katie, a successful solicitor in the City, is distracted by problems with her partner, Nic, and the secretive lives...
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When Grace and Andrew inherit their grandmother's house in Hampstead, they decide to move in together. It seems the obvious thing to do: they get on well, the house is large, and neither of them likes partying or loud music. There's one thing they've forgotten though: what if one of them wants to bring a lover into the house?